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NUXI problem
/nuksee probl@m/ , n. Refers to the problem of transferring data between machines with differing byte-order. The string UNIX might look like NUXI on a machine with a different byte sex (e.g., when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian , or vice-versa). See also middle-endian , swab , and bytesexual.